From: Jason Rumney Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:56:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add w32 keyboard changes. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~9820 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3280c5c54f1290ffbfbec94c670a60c6e6c68b47;p=emacs.git Add w32 keyboard changes. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 5fc20c6b735..c8c673b70ec 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ of Windows with third party IPv6 stacks installed. Previously IPv6 was supported on other platforms, but not on Windows due to using the winsock 1.1 header file, even though Emacs was linking to the winsock 2 library. +** More keys available on MS-Windows. +Keys normally associated with IMEs, and some exotic keys not normally found +on standard keyboards have been given names so they can be bound to functions +inside Emacs. If there are keys on your keyboard that have not been exposed +to Emacs in the past, try C-h k to see if they are available now. + +Emacs can now bind functions to the extra buttons for media player and +browser control present on some keyboards. These buttons are disabled +by default, since enabling them prevents their system-wide use when +Emacs has focus. To enable them, set the variable +w32-pass-multimedia-buttons to nil. See the doc string of that variable +for the list of extra keys that are available. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1